130264 - The 'Enable cookies based on privacy levels' option has gone missing for cookie preferences

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 128639

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Deryk Lister]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

In previous builds, as well as the help file, there was an option in 
Preferences/Privacy & Security/Cookies called 'Enable cookies based on privacy
levels' enabling you to select levels based on the privacy policies that some
websites now use.  This option seems to have completely disappeared in Mozilla 0.9.9

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit, Preferences, Privacy & Security, Cookies
2. Look at the dialog

Actual Results:  The dialog shows:
* Disable cookies
* Enable cookies for the originating web site only
* Enable all cookies

/ Ask me before storing a cookie
/ Limit the maximum lifetime of cookies to: (specify current session or x amount
of days)

Button: Manage Stored Cookies  Button: Understanding privacy

Expected Results:  I was expecting an option:
* Enable cookies based on privacy levels  (With 'view' button next to it)
between "Enable for originating web site" and "Enable all" as it was in earlier
builds or the help file.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This pref has never worked....


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 128639 ***

Comment 2

[Paul Wyskoczka]

v

Comment 3

[Stephen P. Morse]

Actually the fact that you still see it in the help file is an interesting 
problem.  Perhaps that portion of the help file should be hidden (just as the 
pref choice is hidden) when the compact-policy parser is not part of the build.   
cc'ing Sean Cotter on this to see what he wants to do here.